Taywood Nursery School

Overview:

Children at Taywood Nursery School become communicative, resilient, independent and imaginative youngsters, achieving well through the school's well-considered and delivered curriculum. They learn essential concepts, develop their understanding of the importance of equality, and are well prepared for their lives in modern Britain. Children feel happy and at ease at the school, forming close relationships with one another and with key staff.

Strengths:

• Children gain a successful start to their early learning and development, with a curriculum that builds their knowledge of important concepts.
• The school uses its expertise to provide children with a curriculum that builds their knowledge of important concepts, and makes prudent use of advice and support from early years experts.
• Children develop a secure foundation for their future education, and are well prepared for their lives in modern Britain.
• The school provides children with many thought-through opportunities to learn stories, rhymes and poems, and staff revisit important knowledge to ensure it sticks in children's memories.
• The school links with other professionals, parents and carers to identify the needs of each child with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) accurately, and supports children with SEND effectively.

Areas to improve:

• In some areas of learning, the school does not identify clearly enough the knowledge that children will learn, making it harder for staff to teach children some of the essential information that they need for their future learning.
• Sometimes, the school does not make sure that staff create activities that will deliver its curriculum in the way that it intends, meaning that some children do not learn as well as they could.

Safeguarding:

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.